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Sanford, Fl, Us

New York, Ny, Us

BNY Mellon (Clearance and Collateral Management): Jan 2020 to present* Client Solutions Architect* Presented BNY Mellon’s new Client Extranet to more than 100 global financial clients and worked with each client’s business and technology teams to tailor a solution unique to their environment.* Created architectural drawings for both the Clients and Bank Deployment teams to ensure a successful migration.* Built monitoring dashboards and conducted post migration turn-over meetings to the Bank’s Operations teams to transition the clients back to business as usual. * Subject matter expert on the Client Extranet design including Cisco Viptela’s SD-WAN edge routers, AVI Virtual Load-balancers, and Cisco’s Cloud Services Platform.* Migration Architect - developed the product roadmap and documented a comprehensive migration process.

ART Advisors (Analytics, Research, and Trading) is a quantitative and algorithmic trading firm utilizing low latency connections to global exchanges and an affiliate of Caxton Alternative Management (CAM).Re-designed the global network to achieve the lowest latency to each exchange. Rebuilt data centers in order to optimize market data and FIX order latencies. Researched and selected vendors to achieve the lowest latencies to global exchanges.

Start-up Fixed Income Broker-Dealer, grown from 30 to 130+ employees in the last 18 months. Designed and built a High Availability Dual Active Data Center Infrastructure to support a FINRA regulated self-clearing operation. Responsible for IT Infrastructure, Trade Floor Support, Market Data Management, Real Estate, and Facilities.Designed Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Information Security Programs to support FINRA regulations. Managed the move of a 100-person office and its primary data center to a new location in midtown east.

Strategic Value Partners, LLC is a 200-person global hedge fund headquarted in Greenwich, CT with offices in London, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and New Delhi.Managed all IT Infrastructure services globally including trade floor support, market data, and data centers. Built dual active data centers in Greenwich and Stamford, CT and London and Frankfurt. Managed a global team of engineers.

Managing Technology Infrastructure projects for the Financial Services Industry – Strategic Value Partners Hedge Fund - Centralizing the Infrastructure of this 5 billion dollar hedge fund with offices in the US, UK, Germany, Luxemborg, Japan, Hong Kong, and India.Cisco Systems at Merrill Lynch – Managed a Global VOIP Telephone roll-out to Merrill Lynch’s 650+ US branch offices. Managed HP Field Support, AT&T Telecommunication Engineers, and Cisco VOIP EngineersWNYC - Architected the IT Infrastructure at WNYC's new radio station in downtown Manhattan. Project Managed their data center migration from 1 Centre St to the new office.Covance -Managed a Global WAN Upgrade across 31 countries including Cisco hardware replacement and upgrades, circuit ordering and installation, Vendor Management, QOS, and IP Telephony roll-out

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Launched a “value-add” ASP-business within Prime Brokerage providing technology solutions to Hedge Funds – creating a 2.5 million dollars revenue stream• Secured 10 million in budget, analyzed competition, designed pricing strategy, measured SLAs, & worked with Legal on Contracts• Worked closely with hedge fund managers, COOs, & CFOs as well as senior management within Banc of America - Lectured at conferences, nationally, on the topics of disaster recovery, business continuity, & SEC compliance services for Registered Investment Advisors.• Designed and built Data Centers in New York; London; Dallas; & San Francisco to provide Enterprise Technology Services to hedge funds• Managed and grew a technology department from 10 to 30 Network Engineers, System Administrators, Project Managers, Desktop Support, and Help Desk• Managed Desktop Support teams (with remote personnel in Dallas, San Francisco, and Boston) – including ticketing systems, billable hours & rates

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for all production systems for this large 24x7 e-Business company. • Ensured production up-time of 99.95%, and designed and built a Disaster Recovery Site outside the NY Metro Area.• Managed several IT departments: Engineering, Database Administration (oracle and SQL), and Information Security

• Built a World-Class Data Center and Disaster Recovery Site to launch Tradescape’s Institutional Trading business• Designed an Institutional ECN Infrastructure to re-launch MarketXT as a subsidiary under Tradescape Corporation• Designed a National Client Network using AT&T and Qwest as carriers for client Frame Relay connections into our Data Center’s ATM backbone

Santa Monica, California, Us

Millennium Partners is a global hedge fund headquartered in New York City. Responsible for all technology infrastructure.

New York, New York, Us

Network Engineer supporting Equities Real-Time Market Data

Boston, Ma, Us

ABC Courses were part of GE's Leadership Development Program and taught technical writing and public speaking along with graduate level courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Systems Engineering

Nuclear/Nuclear Power Technology

Bs, Nuclear Engineering